Forests are crucial to all life on Earth. They capture and store carbon and are one of the most promising, large-scale, and cost-effective opportunities to combat climate change. Rainforests also sustain rainfalls, food supply, vital ecosystems, and livelihoods for over a billion people. Protecting them is not just a moral imperative, it is essential for a stable, prosperous, and sustainable future for us all. As the COVID-19 crisis highlights, we live in a fragile and interconnected world where sustainability cannot be taken for granted.There is increasing recognition of the urgency of climate change. The Paris Agreement in 2015 committed governments to keep the increase in integral average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre‑industrial levels. Over 1,500 major corporations have committed to climate neutrality, and over 40 countries have implemented some form of carbon pricing scheme. After two decades of putting necessary, effective, high integrity standards and market mechanisms in place,



Emergent has the historic opportunity to channel this momentum to solving the deforestation crisis.Emergent helps safeguard the world’s tropical forests by building a global market for forest carbon credits. Countries generate these credits by reducing deforestation and tropical deforestation (called “REDD+”). For forest countries, Emergent provides a guaranteed source of demand by facilitating access to a range of high‑volume buyers, backed by a purchase guarantee from donors, giving countries the certainty need‑ed to make investments in forest protection and chart a new course. For buyers, Emergent provides access to the highest‑quality REDD+ credits, enabling them to meet their climate neutrality goals.Job DescriptionLocation: Barcelona, Spain preferred, other EU locations consideredPosition Overview : Senior Business Development ManagerEmergent's mission is to catalyze finance at scale to combat the climate crisis. Engaging with the private sector is a crucial part of thi

📌 Senior Business Development Manager (Barcelona)
🏢 Emergent
📍 Barcelona